Remote Sens. 2015, 7(12), 16062-16090; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71215815
Building a Data Set over 12 Globally Distributed Sites to Support the Development of Agriculture Monitoring Applications with Sentinel-2
Sophie Bontemps 1,*
, Marcela Arias 2, Cosmin Cara 3, Gérard Dedieu 2, Eric Guzzonato 4, Olivier Hagolle 2, Jordi Inglada 2, Nicolas Matton 1, David Morin 2, Ramona Popescu 3, Thierry Rabaute 4, Mickael Savinaud 4, Guadalupe Sepulcre 1, Silvia Valero 2, Ijaz Ahmad 5, Agnès Bégué 6, Bingfang Wu 7, Diego De Abelleyra 8, Alhousseine Diarra 9,10, Stéphane Dupuy 6, Andrew French 11, Ibrar Ul Hassan Akhtar 5, Nataliia Kussul 12, Valentine Lebourgeois 6, Michel Le Page 2,10, Terrence Newby 13, Igor Savin 14, Santiago R. Verón 8, Benjamin Koetz 15 and Pierre Defourny 1
, Marcela Arias 2, Cosmin Cara 3, Gérard Dedieu 2, Eric Guzzonato 4, Olivier Hagolle 2, Jordi Inglada 2, Nicolas Matton 1, David Morin 2, Ramona Popescu 3, Thierry Rabaute 4, Mickael Savinaud 4, Guadalupe Sepulcre 1, Silvia Valero 2, Ijaz Ahmad 5, Agnès Bégué 6, Bingfang Wu 7, Diego De Abelleyra 8, Alhousseine Diarra 9,10, Stéphane Dupuy 6, Andrew French 11, Ibrar Ul Hassan Akhtar 5, Nataliia Kussul 12, Valentine Lebourgeois 6, Michel Le Page 2,10, Terrence Newby 13, Igor Savin 14, Santiago R. Verón 8, Benjamin Koetz 15 and Pierre Defourny 1
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Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2 Croix du Sud bte L7.05.16, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse, France
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CS Romania S.A., 29 Strada Pacii, 200692 Craiova, Romania
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CS Systèmes d’Information, 5 rue Brindejonc des Moulinais, 31506 Toulouse, France
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National Agriculture Information Center Directorate, Space Applications Research Complex, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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Maison de la télédétection (CIRAD-UMR TETIS), 500 rue J.-F. Breton, 34093 Montpellier, France
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Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Olympic Village Science Park, West Beichen Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, China
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Instituto de Clima y Agua, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Repetto y de Los Reseros s/n, 1686 Hurlingham, Argentina
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Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Université Cadi Ayyad, BP 2390, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
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Laboratoire Mixte International TREMA, Centre Geber, Faculté des Sciences de Semlalia, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
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U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, ARS-USDA, Maricopa, AZ 85138, USA
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Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine, 40 prosp. Glushkov, build.4/1, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
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Agricultural Research Council (South Africa), Private Bag X79, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa
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V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, PFUR, 119017 Moscow, Russia
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European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, Via Galileo Galilei, Casella Postale 64, 00044 Frascati (Rome), Italy
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Academic Editors: Olivier Arino, Sylvia Sylvander, Clement Atzberger and Prasad S. Thenkabail
Received: 31 May 2015 / Revised: 10 November 2015 / Accepted: 16 November 2015 / Published: 2 December 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lessons Learned from the SPOT4 (Take5): Experiment in Preparation for Sentinel-2)
Abstract
Developing better agricultural monitoring capabilities based on Earth Observation data is critical for strengthening food production information and market transparency. The Sentinel-2 mission has the optimal capacity for regional to global agriculture monitoring in terms of resolution (10–20 meter), revisit frequency (five days) and coverage (global). In this context, the European Space Agency launched in 2014 the “Sentinel2 for Agriculture” project, which aims to prepare the exploitation of Sentinel-2 data for agriculture monitoring through the development of open source processing chains for relevant products. The project generated an unprecedented data set, made of “Sentinel-2 like” time series and in situ data acquired in 2013 over 12 globally distributed sites. Earth Observation time series were mostly built on the SPOT4 (Take 5) data set, which was specifically designed to simulate Sentinel-2. They also included Landsat 8 and RapidEye imagery as complementary data sources. Images were pre-processed to Level 2A and the quality of the resulting time series was assessed. In situ data about cropland, crop type and biophysical variables were shared by site managers, most of them belonging to the “Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring” network. This data set allowed testing and comparing across sites the methodologies that will be at the core of the future “Sentinel2 for Agriculture” system. View Full-TextKeywords:
agriculture monitoring; satellite time series; in situ data; Sentinel-2; SPOT4 (Take 5); Landsat 8; JECAM; GEOGLAM
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Bontemps, S.; Arias, M.; Cara, C.; Dedieu, G.; Guzzonato, E.; Hagolle, O.; Inglada, J.; Matton, N.; Morin, D.; Popescu, R.; Rabaute, T.; Savinaud, M.; Sepulcre, G.; Valero, S.; Ahmad, I.; Bégué, A.; Wu, B.; De Abelleyra, D.; Diarra, A.; Dupuy, S.; French, A.; Ul Hassan Akhtar, I.; Kussul, N.; Lebourgeois, V.; Le Page, M.; Newby, T.; Savin, I.; Verón, S.R.; Koetz, B.; Defourny, P. Building a Data Set over 12 Globally Distributed Sites to Support the Development of Agriculture Monitoring Applications with Sentinel-2. Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 16062-16090.
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